The Australian pseudohistorian Fredrick Toben has been sentenced to three months in prison for publishing anti-Semitic material on his website, the Adelaide Institute. According to the Daily Telegraph: Toben had been banned in 2002 from circulating anti-Semitic material on the website of the Adelaide Institute …
While apparently unwilling to resolve the situation in the manner the Vatican would like, Holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson has told Germany’s Der Spiegel that he would correct himself if satisfied by the evidence, but stated that finding it will “take time”. No surprise then, …
As the row over the lifting of Holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson’s excommunication escalates – with the Vatican now ordering him to completely recant his views if he wants to return to the Catholic church – one question must surely weigh heavily on our minds at …
Was the Holocaust inevitable? So asks Patrick Buchanan, unconsciously lending simple, eloquent expression to a theme that recurs throughout his historical articles: that the root causes for the Holocaust are somehow elusive. I will deal with Buchanan’s article in two segments. The first deals with …
The arrest of Dr Fredrick Toben must be giving Holocaust deniers sleepless nights. Toben was taken into custody by British police last week under an EU arrest warrant issued by the German authorities. He is accused of publishing material online “of an anti-semitic and/or revisionist …
In 2000, Holocaust denial took a bashing when Deborah Lipstadt defeated the psuedohistorian David Irving in an English court. Irving had accused Lipstadt of libel after her book, Denying the Holocaust, was published in Britain. He had been specified as a Holocaust denier, so decided …
It’s convenient for the Arab world to dismiss the Holocaust as a Zionist conspiracy. It’s easy, too, when accurate information about the Holocaust is so difficult to obtain in Arab societies. Robert Satloff, author of Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust’s Long Reach …
Hitler was wrong. The Nazi idea of a ‘pure’ Nordic race, new evidence shows, was pure fancy. Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have discovered a 2000 year-old burial site containing the remains of a man “who appears to be of arabian origin”. The evidence …
UCL might allow Islamic creationists in their lecture halls, but at least they draw the line when it comes to Holocaust denial. Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom has had his Honorary Research Fellowship terminated after an online paper, in which he denies the Nazis attempted an “intentional …
It is gratifying to see counterknowledge calmly and ruthlessly being picked to pieces. A group of Lebanese Muslims, made angry by a Facebook group which calls the Prophet Mohammed “a murderer”, have retaliated by starting their own group. It’s called “Based on the facts…There was …